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” (Foreign Policy Centre, London, 2004).


5. The Ally

1. Jim O’Neill and Anna Stupnytska, The Long-term Outlook for the BRICs and N-11 Post Crisis (Goldman Sachs, Global Eonomics Paper no. 192, Dec. 4, 2009).

2. “GM to triple parts sourcing from India,” Times of India, Nov. 20, 2007.

3. Jahangir Aziz and Steven Dunaway, “China’s Rebalancing Act,” Finance & Development 44, no. 3 (Sept. 2007).

4. Yasheng Huang, “Will India Overtake China?” Foreign Policy, July/Aug. 2003, pp. 71–81.

5. Manjeet Kripalani, “Read All About It: India’s Media Wars,” BusinessWeek, May 16, 2005.

6. From the World Health Organization, available at http://www.who.int/countries/ind/en/.

7. See, e.g., his article, “India and the Balance of Power,” Foreign Affairs 85, no. 4 (July/Aug. 2006): 17–32.

8. Chaudhuri explains these ideas further in his Hinduism: A Religion to Live By (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979).

9. Mohamed ElBaradei, “Rethinking Nuclear Safeguards,” Washington Post, June 14, 2006.

10. Robert D. Blackwill, “Journalist Roundtable on India” (transcript), hosted by David B. Ensor, Feb. 23, 2006.


6. American Power

1. James Morris, Pax Britannica: Climax of an Empire (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1980).

2. Quoted in Karl Meyer, “An Edwardian Warning: The Unraveling of a Colossus,” World Policy Journal 17, no. 4 (Winter 2000/2001): 47–57.

3. Niall Ferguson, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (New York: Basic Books, 2002), 268.

4. Lawrence James, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 212.

5. Paul Kennedy, “Why Did the British Empire Last So Long?,” in Strategy and Diplomacy, 1870–1945: Eight Studies (London: Allen & Unwin, 1984), 197–218.

6. The facts on Britain’s economic situation come largely from Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers (New York: Random House, 1987), 151–200. Maddison and Barnett (see below) are also useful sources.

7. This theory on the British decline is fleshed out in Correlli Barnett, The Collapse of British Power (Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1997).

8. Niall Ferguson, The Pity of War (New York: Penguin Books, 1998).

9. Kennedy, Rise and Fall of Great Powers, 317.

10. James, Rise and Fall of the British Empire, 464.

11. Michael W. Holman, Profiting from International Nanotechnology (Lux Research, Dec. 2006).

12. James Fallows, “China Makes, the World Takes,” Atlantic Monthly, July/Aug. 2007.

13. The Immelt quotation originally appeared in an interview with the Globalist magazine, “A CEO’s Responsibilities in the Age of Globalization,” March 17, 2006.

14. Bialik wrote two columns on the topic in the Wall Street Journal: “Outsourcing Fears Help Inflate Some Numbers,” Aug. 26, 2005, and “Sounding the Alarm with a Fuzzy Stat,” Oct. 27, 2005. The Duke study, called “Framing the Engineering Outsourcing Debate: Placing the United States on a Level Playing Field with China and India,” was led by Dr. Gary Gereffi and Vivek Wadhwa.

15. The Emerging Global Labor Market: Part II—The Supply of Offshore Talent in Services (McKinsey Global Institute, June 2005).

16. Alan S. Brown and Linda LaVine Brown, “What Are Science & Math Test Scores Really Telling U.S.?” Bent of Tau Beta Pi, Winter 2007, pp. 13–17.

17. Michael Alison Chandler, “Asian Educators Looking to Loudoun for an Edge,” Washington Post, March 19, 2007.

18. Eberstadt’s recent articles provide good background on the demographic trends in various regions and their impact on their respective economies: “Born in the USA,” American Interest, May/June 2007; “Critical Cross-Cutting Issues Facing Northeast Asia: Regional Demographic Trends and Prospects,” Asia Policy (Jan. 2007); and “Healthy Old Europe,” Foreign Affairs 86, no. 3 (May/June 2007): 55–68.

19. Richard N. Cooper, “Living with Global Imbalances: A Contrarian View,” Policy Briefs in International Economics (Institute for International Economics, Nov. 2005).

20. Sustaining New York’s and the U.S.’s Global Financial Services Leadership, available at www.senate.gov/~schumer/SchumerWebsite/pressroom/special_reports/2007/NY_REPORT%20_FINAL.pdf.

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